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Since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, the situation for freedom of expression and media freedom in Russia has worsened significantly.  

These Potemkin referenda do not fool us. They do not change the facts on the ground. Putin and his Kremlin cronies can lie to themselves…

Russia’s President Putin has tried to justify his war against Ukraine by claiming he is “de-nazifying” a democratic country that elected a Jewish president.

In recent months we have seen Russia target religious groups in parts of other countries that it controls or occupies, including Crimean Tatar Muslims and…

In Belarus, there have been no free and fair elections since Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s 1994 election. Brutal repressions following the fraudulent 2020 presidential election relentlessly continue.

As we meet, Russia wages brutal war against Ukraine while Poland and other nearby countries represented at this table face a massive refugee crisis. 

The United States deeply regrets the resurgence of violence along the Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan border. 

This report effectively summarizes the terrible cost of a decade of legislative attacks on human rights in Russia under what can only be described as…

The Russian government and administration not only excessively limit human rights and fundamental freedoms, but actively work to their detriment to propagate the war.

Historical revisionism and the deliberate distortion, denial, or trivialization of the Holocaust and other historical facts is a problem we’re seeing across our region.

Wherever Ukraine liberates its territory, we see the horrors Russia leaves behind in its wake.

The Academy increases the visibility of the OSCE's work among young people and provides a valuable platform for emerging voices like your own to address…

The Lukashenka regime continues to employ brutal tactics to suppress dissent.

Russia’s forces lost the battle of Kyiv in March, and now we see them abandoning their tanks and BMPs and running – sometimes literally –…

As a Minsk Group Co-Chair country and in our national capacity, we stress that there is no military solution to this conflict. 

I would like to thank the Polish Chair for convening this final meeting of the 2022 EEF cycle, as well as our Czech hosts for their…

Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine has destabilized the security of the OSCE region like no other development since this Organization’s founding. 

The OSCE’s Second Dimension and OCEEA will have an important role to play in helping overcome the economic and environmental consequences of Russia’s brutal war.